Significant individuals Flashcards
What did Thomas Sydenham push
Pushed doctors to observe and record information on patients rather than supernatural ideas
Wanted doctors to visit patients instead of them visit the doctor so they could spend more time on observation

How did Thomas Sydenham categorise illnesses
My grouping similar diseases together and describing small differences between the e.g. chickenpox and measles
What was it previously thought before Thomas Sydenham discovery
Or rashes have been classed as the same and given the same treatment
Who was Andreas Vesalius
An anatomist who studied the human body And showed where everything was
Who did Vesalius openly challenge
Galen’s ideas
What did Versalius encouraged people to do
Challenge galens views
How did versailius prove Galen wrong
Prove the human jaw bone was one bone not two
What was the book called that Vesalius published
The Fabric of the human body
What did the fabric of the human body book contain
Renaissance artist drawings of realistic images of the body
What did William Harvey do
Dissected dead human bodies and live cold-blooded animals who had a slower heartbeat
Why did William Harvey dissect cold blooded animals
Because they had a slower heart rate so he could observe the movement of the blood better
What did Harvey prove about the heart
That’s it acted as a pump and pump blood around the body
How did Harvey prove Galen wrong
Prove that blood wasn’t burnt up in the liver like Galen said
How did Harvey discover the circulation of blood around the body
Tried to pump the blood the wrong way up a vein and could not do it which proves blood only flows one way
